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How to survive and thrive as an engineering leader
Imagine this. You were a superstar developer! You wrote elegant code, you understood how things were put together behind the scene and you were the go-to person for any technical issue or question about the organisation’s code base. And because of that, you got promoted. You got a promotion and this is what happens.
Being promoted to be an engineering leader is actually not a step up, nor a promotion. It’s a lateral, separate track.
The saying about what made you successful in your previous role won’t necessarily work in your new role couldn’t be more right. As an engineering leader who once used to be a superstar developer, how do you survive and then thrive in your new role? In this article, I will be sharing with you everything I have learned and observed in the last six years as an engineering manager, all the challenges I had faced and my strategies for how to not only be an effective engineering leader but also to enjoy my job. And remember, it doesn’t have to be hard.
So lets start with my struggles… or rather the challenges that I had faced in my early years as an engineering leader.
